Born Name
Emanuela de Paula
Nick Name
Manu
Zoe Saldana, also known as Neytiri (for 2009 movie Avatar) is a talented and smart actress. She is a fun loving person who loves to keep her engaged by playing different sports like skiing. She also likes eating food and considers that she is into wrong business. Because, she is a great food lover and can not resist herself to eat different types of foods, from variety of regions or areas, she has to work out a lot due to that. But on the same time, she feels it awesome that she gets to travel to different places, eat different kinds of food, so why not enjoy this life.
Due to her this kind of nature, she needs to workout a lot. She keeps her heart and body healthy by doing Pilates. It is a body conditioning routine that helps people to gain flexibility, endurance, muscles strength in the butt, back, abdominals, legs. It is great way to lose weight if one commits to Pilates exercise seriously. Zoe Saldana is devoted to Pilates workout. But, she can not do it or any type of activity for long as she gets bored easily. So, she takes the help from trainers to actively indulge into this.
As exercise burns calories, you can also get a sexy shape and trimmed body figure by doing Pilates. Firstly, do warm up exercises to make any workout effective. As a beginner, you can start with many exercises like chest lift, the side kick series, one leg balance, plank exercise, etc. In the intermediate and advanced levels, you can include equipments like wunda chair, reformer, ladder barrel to make workout more challenging.
For 2011 movie, Colombiana, she took the help of personal trainer Steve Moyer. He is former basketball player who played in Europe, famous for Moyer Method and has trained celebs like Amanda Righetti and Shannen Doherty. Moyer is training Saldana since 2009. This celebrity trainer has designed a workout for his clients. The sample of which is show below.
This is a part of the Moyer Method and aims at legs, gluteal muscles, abs, hips and hamstrings, whose level is considered from intermediate to expert. You will need an exercise mat and a swiss ball for these exercises.